Watergate and how it effected our country.

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Introduction

Watergate is a political period in American history where political scandals occurred between 1972 and 1974 . These scandals were done in the then current president 's political and federal government circle . This leaded to over 30 government officials being convicted . This is termed as on of the worst in the history of American political scandals . The scandals included cover up of the break-in into the Democratic National Committee headquarters located at the Watergate Hotel . Richard Nixon the then president and his

aide did a lot of illegal activities such as abuses , crimes , campaign fraud , tax evasions in unacceptable tax appraisals and money laundering among other criminal activities . All these activities were done in Mexico . Some other scandals included Saturday Night Massacre ' which occurred in October 20th 1973 (Lukas Anthony 29

In spite of Nixon successes in domestic policies such as wage and price control , he also helped in the significantly ion in the improvement of Federal affirmative action that improved the world wide federal employees salaries and wages , this helped in the social security for inflation , establishing of an environmental protecting agency known as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA . The also increased federal government funding for civil and human rights organizations and the also gave a legislation proposal that saw the creation of Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA . He was also engaged in school integration and U .S .A . space program which saw the development of NASA Space Shuttle program . These influenced efforts to develop and extensively explore space by the Americans (Lukas Anthony 36

Effects of Watergate scandal

The effects of the Watergate enormous , the effects of this scandal have shaped the political , judicial arena of the federal government . Not only did President Richard Nixon resign and being pardoned by his predecessor President Ford but the effects were evident on the upcoming senator and White House race . The Democrats swept five more seats in the Senate and over forty more in the House of common after the wave of the Watergate scandal , both in Congress and other political elections . With Larry O 'Brien , a Democrat having a lot of information about Nixon 's unreleased dealings they were assured of a win

Presidential powers were decreased and various laws were legislated which controlled the president 's spending and funding of his /her election . This also forced the president to seek advice from the Congress before going to wars and also making the government transparent in its way of doing things . This has been a positive effect since the president cannot make rush and ill-advised decisions in regard to war among other government activities (Citrin Jack 73 . This has improved the government decisions on issues affecting the country . Some decisions that Nixon as the president did would not have been done if there the laws that were passed after the scandal were passed long time before the scandal . In other words , the president became the subject of the law of which he was not before...